According to the available documentation, this flag was presented to the
battery by the ladies of Tuscaloosa. During a skirmish in Mobile, Lt. James
McLauren Shivers took the flag from a Federal soldier who had captured it. In
August 1905 Thomas Owen, Director, Alabama Department of Archives and
History, learned that the flag had survived the war and was still in Shivers'
possession. On August 15, 1905 Owen wrote Shivers requesting the return of the
flag. Receiving no response, Owen wrote again on September 2, 1905. On
September 13, 1905 Shivers replied that he did indeed have the flag and intended
to donate it. He also noted that Lumsden's Battery had carried a "blue guidon
with a full moon in the center" when they were in Hardee's Corps. For some
unexplained reason Shivers failed to forward the flag to Owen, who continued to
press the matter through correspondence until February 1910. No correspondence
after this date has been located. The flag was finally donated to the Alabama Department of Archives and History by Mrs. Allyne (Shivers) Norton, the daughter of James M. Shivers. At the time the donantion was made, no date was entered into the accession log, however, the previous entry was for October, 1928, while the next was for March, 1929.

This flag received conservation treatment and was prepared for display by Textile Preservation Associates, Inc. of Sharpsburg, Maryland in November 2004.

Sources: Curator's Object Files, Civil War Flags, Alabama Department of Archives and History.